Somewhere below the Swedish city of Västerås, there’s a big man-made cave. During the Cold War, it was used to store oil. But the local energy company decided to clean it, pump it full of water and heat it up. Here’s why they did that.
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We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. We’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
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Reporter: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Camera: Neven Hillebrands
Video Editor: David Jacobi
Supervising Editor: Kiyo Dörrer, Michael Trobridge
Factcheck: Kirsten Funck
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon
Read More:
Information about the thermos caves (in Swedish):
https://www.malarenergi.se/om-malarenergi/framtidens-samhalle/vara-anlaggningar/energilager/
Report on how to make district heating more efficient:
https://energiforsk.se/media/33632/2024-1040-70-possibilities-for-district-heating.pdf
Sweden’s oil deposits during the Cold War:
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1642502/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:34 Into the tunnels
04:19 Storing heat
06:11 The thermos caves
09:40 Can we build more?
